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A Companion to Victorian Poetry
Ciaran Cronin
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Description for A Companion to Victorian Poetry
Hardback. Presents essays that reflect the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it. This book opens with an introductory essay on Victorian poetics that provides an overview of the whole period. It surveys the variety of styles in Victorian poetry and focuses on the means of its production and distribution. Editor(s): Cronin, Richard; Harrison, Antony H.; Chapman, Alison. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 632 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 176 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1256.
This Companion brings together specially commissioned essays by distinguished international scholars that reflect both the diversity of Victorian poetry and the variety of critical approaches that illuminate it.
- Approaches Victorian poetry by way of genre, production and cultural context, rather than through individual poets or poems
- Demonstrates how a particular poet or poem emerges from a number of overlapping cultural contexts.
- Explores the relationships between work by different poets
- Recalls attention to a considerable body of poetry that has fallen into neglect
- Essays are informed by recent developments in textual and cultural theory
- Considers Victorian women poets in every chapter
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
632
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631222071
SKU
V9780631222071
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99-50
About Ciaran Cronin
Richard Cronin teaches at Glasgow University. His publications include The Politics of Romantic Poetry (2000) and Romantic Victorians: English Literature 1824-1840 (2002) Antony H. Harrison teaches at North Carolina State University. His books include Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems (1990), Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture (1998), The Culture of Christina Rossetti (1999), and The Letters of Christina ... Read more
Reviews for A Companion to Victorian Poetry
"Yet overall, and at its best, it provides what few critical books can offer: a highly readable, even rollicking account of the whole era, as variegated and lively as Victorian poetry itself." (Review 19, 2011) "[A] comprehensive, challenging picture of Victorian poetry emerges when reading the entire collection of essays.... A feast of information." (Brontë Studies, November 2009) ... Read more